What good are strong specifications?

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 262-271

  Polikarpova, Nadia ^a   Furia, Carlo A ^a   Pei, Yu ^a   Wei, Yi ^a   Meyer, Bertrand ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN BY CONTRACTS; DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; FORMAL TECHNIQUES; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; LIGHTWEIGHT FORMAL METHODS; RUN-TIME PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE QUALITY; WIDE SPECTRUM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 84886421524     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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